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What is the key to Interpersonal relationships with others? The communication goal I chose is to not just resolve a conflict with my mother though attain conflict resolution skills. I have never gotten along with people easily especially with parents and friends and I say that is why I am an introvert because I feel I can never maintain a great relationship with people nor meet their expectations. The three concepts I used to attain my goal are listening, self-disclosure, and collaboration. Resolving conflicts with others is crucial because it leads to a good and healthy life and gaining respect of and for others.
According to Interplay, listening is the process of receiving and responding to others’ messages. According to Interplay, self-disclosure …show more content…

It involves a high degree of concern for both self and others, with the goal of solving problems not “my way” or “your way” but “our way”. I chose listening, self-disclosure, and collaboration as my three course concepts to improve upon and utilize for this communication goal which is resolving conflict and attaining conflict resolution skills because I felt that they fit best to make things right to successfully meet my communication goal. I chose resolve conflict with friends
Martin 2 and family as my communication goal for a personal reason that has negatively impacted me for a long time. I have never gotten along with others including my parents very well and I want to start making things right with my parents and the people I interact with now and in the future from now on at the same time have conflict resolution skills because I want to make relationships with others a priority. The three different situations I practiced this skill outside of class are listening, perception checking, and feedback. I was able to practice listening by talking to my mom about one of the arguments we had which I regret later on and that argument was regarding that one of her …show more content…

My implicit personal theory of communication has rapidly changed because I have never been confident about my comprehension skills and that led people to assume I am slow-minded though now I know how great it is to communicate with others and now I know how great it is to attain crucial skills such as listening, feedback, and perception-checking and practice concepts such as listening, self-disclosure and collaboration, people now know I have a solid relationship with my family and friends and ever since I practiced these skills and concepts I have been able to maintain a fruitful relationship with others. I do not think there is much to change because I have learned to change the way I learned how to behave around others on my own, though my blueprint for improving the quality of my communication is I would like to maintain my progress on learning to resolve conflicts and communicate with others now and in the future adequately. For example, in the future this is how I plan to communicate so that I can have confidence, approach the people I wanted to meet and succeed in life. Moreover, as I continue to learn and improve my conflict resolution skills and resolve my current conflict with my mother, I

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